The Gathering 2011
category: parties [glöplog]
Hello beloved sceners!
As most of you are probably aware at this point - The Gathering 2011 will take place in Hamar, Norway at easter time with increased focus on the demoscene and other forms of digital creativity. The Gathering has over the last few years gone through massive changes to become an attractive easter demoparty option for both Norwegian and European sceners. Last year was a very good year for us with hundreds of new people taking interest and participating in the creative side of the party. The TG demo crew is now working with high enthusiasm towards next year.
As usual we will host a wide range of traditional demoscene competitions - plus new competitions unique to The Gathering that have become very popular over the last two years; like the Hardcore Programming and Fast Remix competitions to name a few. We have reserved a large, comfortable, low-noise area within the Vikingship for the highly successfull Creative Lounge, which plays the role as a "demoparty within the computer party". Here you'll find all the most creative people of The Gathering gathered in a common seating area, with demoshows, seminars and DJ-sets within sneezing distance.
The Gathering acknowledges that sceners might want to get some break from the intense environment of the Vikingship during their stay. We are therefore cooperating closely with our friends in the EasterGarden crew to ensure that a visit to Hamar next easter offers both the opportunity to experience The Gathering with all its people, shows, competitions and immersive impressions; while outside prime time have the opportunity to pull back to a relaxed location to have a beer with your demoscene friends, some good conversations and a good night's sleep. We will coordinate our schedules and transports so you can experience the best of both parties without missing out on any of the good parts.
This thread is to let you know that all of you are indeed very welcome to The Gathering 2011, and to answer any practical questions you might have about the party.
No matter whether you choose Norway, Germany our your family, we wish you all a very good easter of 2011!
BTW: Creative Tickets and Creative Forigener Tickets are now for sale (in unlimited amounts); see www.gathering.org and www.geekevents.org
As most of you are probably aware at this point - The Gathering 2011 will take place in Hamar, Norway at easter time with increased focus on the demoscene and other forms of digital creativity. The Gathering has over the last few years gone through massive changes to become an attractive easter demoparty option for both Norwegian and European sceners. Last year was a very good year for us with hundreds of new people taking interest and participating in the creative side of the party. The TG demo crew is now working with high enthusiasm towards next year.
As usual we will host a wide range of traditional demoscene competitions - plus new competitions unique to The Gathering that have become very popular over the last two years; like the Hardcore Programming and Fast Remix competitions to name a few. We have reserved a large, comfortable, low-noise area within the Vikingship for the highly successfull Creative Lounge, which plays the role as a "demoparty within the computer party". Here you'll find all the most creative people of The Gathering gathered in a common seating area, with demoshows, seminars and DJ-sets within sneezing distance.
The Gathering acknowledges that sceners might want to get some break from the intense environment of the Vikingship during their stay. We are therefore cooperating closely with our friends in the EasterGarden crew to ensure that a visit to Hamar next easter offers both the opportunity to experience The Gathering with all its people, shows, competitions and immersive impressions; while outside prime time have the opportunity to pull back to a relaxed location to have a beer with your demoscene friends, some good conversations and a good night's sleep. We will coordinate our schedules and transports so you can experience the best of both parties without missing out on any of the good parts.
This thread is to let you know that all of you are indeed very welcome to The Gathering 2011, and to answer any practical questions you might have about the party.
No matter whether you choose Norway, Germany our your family, we wish you all a very good easter of 2011!
BTW: Creative Tickets and Creative Forigener Tickets are now for sale (in unlimited amounts); see www.gathering.org and www.geekevents.org
Maybe you don't want to "officially endorse" certain airlines but I think it's worth mentioning that norwegian is pretty cheap and with it's main hub located an hour from TG.
Thank you for the information Duckers :) The ticket fees for Creative Tickets (the ones that demosceners would want I guess?), are around 50 euros for foreigners and 100 euros for norwegians. That isn't too bad.
There's no Creative Ticket with the All Inclusive option ?
might actully go there, first time this year
@bstrr: I'll check it out
that picture looks like a foliba
oops ;)
@bstrr:
(They changed from only selling it as a combo to selling the food ticket separately).
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Food ticket 400 NOK (+ 19 NOK fee)
(They changed from only selling it as a combo to selling the food ticket separately).
løgoober, ah, tak! :D
If you bring a top hat I will personally refund your food stamps :P
Jeg ka' ta' en top-mave med!
:-( no planes from svalbard
with the current rumours of a breakpoint replacement brewing, I'm a little worried by this..
It's fucking friday night, and I'm fucking coding a fucking synth in the vague hope that we'll be ready to release something for TUM. Chances are looking a bit thin at the moment, but we're still giving it a go. Basically, this is the answer to everything that people criticised with ephemera. (I'm really looking forwards to taking a break and doing a joke demo :-D))
So it's better than ephemera, and that got a scene.org award. If we get nominated, we have to go to the gathering. We'll be sober and surrounded by gamers while you guys are all pissed and having the time of your lives in germany..
Has anybody thought this through?
Video link from the gathering to fabled breakpoint replacement.. I know where I'd rather be :-)
It's fucking friday night, and I'm fucking coding a fucking synth in the vague hope that we'll be ready to release something for TUM. Chances are looking a bit thin at the moment, but we're still giving it a go. Basically, this is the answer to everything that people criticised with ephemera. (I'm really looking forwards to taking a break and doing a joke demo :-D))
So it's better than ephemera, and that got a scene.org award. If we get nominated, we have to go to the gathering. We'll be sober and surrounded by gamers while you guys are all pissed and having the time of your lives in germany..
Has anybody thought this through?
Video link from the gathering to fabled breakpoint replacement.. I know where I'd rather be :-)
Where have you been for the last couple of weeks? Havent you heard about the cold shed outside of TG where there will be booze and Scene Awards afterparty. So there is no reason collecting that prize sober. ;)
Whoa horsey.. I never said anything about collecting prizes! There IS competition :-)
am i then the only one to who this whole setup sounds like close to ideal? code that demo at a spot at TG where the whole crowd is doing the same, yet you can hear what your neighbour is telling you. i mean, at BP-clone you'd be sitting in a damn HOTEL ROOM all day.
and then when the democoding had enough of itself, go to eastergarden and pass out with friends in a cozy environment without the 5000 gamers. what's wrong with all that?
and then when the democoding had enough of itself, go to eastergarden and pass out with friends in a cozy environment without the 5000 gamers. what's wrong with all that?
Um yeahhh, I'm going to Norway. Just saying :)
Ferris: yay! :)
Meteorik: yes, it would be a damn shame if you got nominated for an award, eh? :) Since you haven't caught up in the other threads, just read Skrebbel's comment because it's full of win.
am i the only one who has strong opposition against this? the party at easter is concerned to be the major scene meeting. i just think that a major meeting should cover all things that are important for the majority at this party. and at my major meeting, i neither want to be a minority, nor want i to be carried away to a side event where i can party with my majority without bothering the 5000 other people that don't give a fuck about what we are doing. pretty understandable that they shouldn't be bothered, in the end they pay as twice as sceners do. and at the biggest demo party in the year, i want to have the price giving exclusive, and not as an intermission between quake and fifa 11 (or whatever).
i surely did the math and realized that it's a great thing to have gamers pay for a new form of sponsoring the awards, another external drinking place for people where you're carried back and forth and so on. but at which cost? when people ask me about the demoscene and the parties i always tell them that it is the only place in the world where it comes to real freedom and its probably the only place where you are not measured by your gender, look, race, income or # of pimples. a place where anarchy actually works. where you can do everything as long as you don't harm others. and i don't know if this would really work at a cunsomer oriented mass event.
another fact that really makes me sad is the lack of support for oldschool platforms. are we really considered to focus only on latest beautiful wonderful stuff that depict how games will look in 2 years? what about the old spirit? i still enjoy the latest stuff on the C64 and the amiga. it's still great what people do there. even if its out of the commercial focus.
i surely did the math and realized that it's a great thing to have gamers pay for a new form of sponsoring the awards, another external drinking place for people where you're carried back and forth and so on. but at which cost? when people ask me about the demoscene and the parties i always tell them that it is the only place in the world where it comes to real freedom and its probably the only place where you are not measured by your gender, look, race, income or # of pimples. a place where anarchy actually works. where you can do everything as long as you don't harm others. and i don't know if this would really work at a cunsomer oriented mass event.
another fact that really makes me sad is the lack of support for oldschool platforms. are we really considered to focus only on latest beautiful wonderful stuff that depict how games will look in 2 years? what about the old spirit? i still enjoy the latest stuff on the C64 and the amiga. it's still great what people do there. even if its out of the commercial focus.
pro: I am sorry if TG doesn't appeal enough to you - you are free to go wherever you want this easter. But keep in mind that just as someone thinks it's a long trip and too expensive to go to Norway for a party, a lot of nordic people think its a long and expensive trip to go to south Germany, and appreciate a fullblown alternative up here in the north. We are in fact very happy that the easter party in german seems to be happening so that more europeans get a chance to experience a demoparty this easter.I think it's a great sign of the scene being very much alive and healthy when we are able to pull off two big scene parties with attendance in the hundreds simultaneously!
If you are refering to the Scene.org awards being held at TG, keep in mind that the original intention of the awards was to move from party to party - and think of the incredible PR and outreach for the scene this will be. Every year, hundreds of new people discover and get inspired by the demoscene at The Gathering - and I believe this will amplify the effect even further.
According to your logic it sounds like we would do the scene as a whole a favour by making The Gathering less good for sceners. I simply won't acknowledge such nonsense.
If you are refering to the Scene.org awards being held at TG, keep in mind that the original intention of the awards was to move from party to party - and think of the incredible PR and outreach for the scene this will be. Every year, hundreds of new people discover and get inspired by the demoscene at The Gathering - and I believe this will amplify the effect even further.
According to your logic it sounds like we would do the scene as a whole a favour by making The Gathering less good for sceners. I simply won't acknowledge such nonsense.
and i thought we had this drama already...
everybody should visit the party that fits him/her the most and thats it. both sides have valid points but in the end more party = more win.
everybody should visit the party that fits him/her the most and thats it. both sides have valid points but in the end more party = more win.
Also: it doesn't strike me as very anarchistic that the awards 'should' happen in a certain place. Seems more like a conservative thing, a longing for the past, *a longing for breakpoint*. Well Breakpoint is fucking dead, and nobody is going to make a clone of it. Stuff is changing. Not for the better, just for something different, but there is an energy in that change, a place where new things and new ideas happen, and I like that a lot!
